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Slidenjoy is a High-Quality Laptop Screen – Without a Laptop

by Tom Allen

Laptops – they’re designed to be portable, but the trade-off is a lack of screen real estate. Or is it? A new project on Kickstarter – which was funded less than three days after …

Imagining the Personal Companion of the Near Future

by Bob Raikes

Our friend, Dr Jon Peddie, sent us this article, which he sub-titled “My smartphone helps me get through the day, and night” Today’s PongThe fast developing potential for truly useful applications that can convert …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Flexenable Scientist Takes Faraday Medal

by Tom Allen

Henning Sirringhaus, of FlexEnable, has won this year’s Faraday Medal from the UK’s Institute of Physics. Sirringhaus won the medal for ‘transforming our knowledge of charge transport phenomena in organic semiconductors as well as …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 29

4G Popularity Rises Rapidly in China

by Tom Allen

A new study by GSMA Intelligence shows that smartphones will represent two-thirds of mobile connections in China by the end of the year. Smartphone adoption in the country was at 62% by the end …

Tags:3G & 4G| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Statista: Microsoft Spent $9.4 Billion on a Sinking Ship

by Tom Allen

Statista has released a chart that demonstrates the poor decision that Microsoft made on buying Nokia. As well as letting go of almost 7% of its global workforce (Microsoft to Cut 7,500 Jobs) – …

‘The iPhone is the Only Product That Matters’

by Tom Allen

Seeking Alpha has written an article discussing the dominance of the iPhone – over Apple’s own products. In the introduction, the website notes, ‘From a financial and business perspective, the iPhone is the only …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Note 5 Will Precede IFA

by Tom Allen

The Wall Street Journal claims that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Note 5 before its traditional IFA launch date. Instead, the phablet will be launched in mid-August. The move will apparently be taken to …

Intel Climbs in Mobile Space

by Tom Allen

Shipments of Android tablets with Intel processors will fall to 10.8 million units this year, from 14.23 million in 2014. The prediction comes from ET Mag. The site has also said that Android smartphones …

Tags:Android| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 29

ASE Posts Record Q2 Sales

by Helen Vince

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) recorded its second-highest quarterly revenue in the company’s history in Q2, 8.6% higher than Q1 and 19.8% higher than the second quarter of last year at NT$70.2 billion ($2.2 billion). …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Korea Aims at 11k Mobile Display

by Tom Allen

The Korean government has initiated a project called EnDK, which aims to develop a mobile display with 11k resolution and 2,550 ppi. That would be, roughly, a 5.9″ screen with 11520 x 6480 resolution. …

IFA 2015: Samsung Takes CityCube and LG Moves Halls

by Tom Allen

Both Samsung and LG have confirmed their exhibit space for IFA 2015, says Germany’s Invidis. For the second time, Samsung has hired the CityCube, taking 6,000m² of show floor. LG, meanwhile, has moved from …

MEA Smartphones Consolidate in $100 – $200 Bracket

by Tom Allen

Smartphone shipments in the MEA region will reach 155 million units this year, says IDC, after a 66% YoY rise in Q1’15 (to 36 million units). 63% of handsets shipped in the Middle East …

Tags:IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 29